[ExI] COVID-19 has now reached 3 Vietnam's worth of death

[Darin Sunley]

Where are we at in /excess/ deaths vs. Vietnam? That seems like a better
comparison. Not every COVID death is an excess death - indeed, probably
most aren't. But every Vietnam death was an excess death.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:23 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:13 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> But now I see why John, who is American, is always reporting the ratio
>> of covid deaths over Vietnam war deaths: it makes the USA look great.  It
>> is a form of flag waving.  John does love his government after all.  Who
>> knew?*
>
>
> Yes who knew, who knew 175,302 deaths could be so funny, a real knee
> slapper. In case you're wondering why that number is different it's because
> 215 more Americans died of COVID-19 since I wrote that Email 3 1/2 hours
> ago.
>
>  John K Clark
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